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Butterfly stroke is a style of swimming that appeared in the Olympic Games in 1908 exclusive for male and two games later in 1924 included the female category. This style is considerate one of the most beautiful styles of swimming. Butterfly stroke has two categories that are evaluated individually. The first one is swim 100 meters in a pool of 25 meters. The second one is 200 meters in pool of 50 meters. Hence Butterfly stroke in the history of Olympic Games didn’t begin with the male and female category. One hundred twenty years ago, the first Olympic Games were in Athens as a sport competition for the entire world. The Olympic Games have had different sports like athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming and shooting. One of them is the swimming that has a lot of styles that are evaluated individually. And the styles of swimming like butterfly stroke, front crawl or back stroke have had a lot of historical moments in the Olympic Games.